Open courseware and Open Educational Resources started as an idea and a vision and, over the course of a decade, have morphed in to a Worldwide effort to bring free, high-quality educational materials to the masses.

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Great Article over at Wired about how PBS is planning on releasing hundreds of Nova interviews as Creative Commons-licensed content. This is great for news for open courseware content creators who want to include this material in their courses. Essentially, the license allows the creator (PBS) to retain full copyright privileges on the content, but allow the public to freely share, distribute, copy and transmit the work.

I just added the Creative Commons 3.0 licensing to the site and the RSS feed (thanks, FeedBurner). All the content here is now officially free (as in beer)—so enjoy, learn and help support Creative Commons.